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Ralph handles and tries civil litigation and appellate matters with respect to administrative, arbitration, and jury and non-jury judicial proceedings, seeking to resolve business disputes and personal injury claims in a broad range of substantive legal areas. Examples of those areas are: administrative law, bankruptcy law, complex commercial transactions, environmental law, Indian affairs, natural resources, probate and water. He practices before the United States Supreme Court and the lower federal courts, as well as the California Supreme Court, lower state courts, and the District of Columbia courts.
Ralph has extensive experience in various senior positions with the federal and California state governments. Those positions include, among others, Solicitor, US Department of the Interior, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, US Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, US Western Water Policy Review Commission, US Border Environmental Plan Public Advisory Committee, California Secretary of State Voter Task Force, and staff assistant to California Governor Ronald Reagan. In response to the Alaskan Oil Spill in 1989, Ralph chaired an interagency steering committee overseeing the US government’s preparation of the natural resource damage assessment. In his practice, he utilizes the full range of this expertise to represent clients in federal and California state government relations matters, especially in the natural resources and environmental area.
ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
Author
Various Opinions of the Solicitor, US Department of the Interior
Various Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel, US Department of Justice
Managing Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Malcolm L. Spaulding and Mark Reed (eds.), Oil Spills: Management and Legislative Implications, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, pp. 383-395 (1990)
Protecting the Privacy of the Absent Patient: Rudnick v. Superior Court, 27 Hastings Law Journal 99 (1976)
PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Member
Los Angeles County Bar Association Environmental Law Section
Litigation Section
Trust and Estates Section
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Valley Industry and Commerce Association
Board of Directors
Vice Chairman
State Bar of California
Environmental Law Section
Litigation Section
Trust and Estates Section
Committee to Confer with the California Medical Association (1980-1982)
Federal Bar Association
Administrative Law Section
General Counsels Section, Chairman (1985-1986, 1986-1987) | 